Chesss

In September, when the five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen accused a 19-year-old American player named Hans Niemann of cheating at a tournament in St. Louis, an uproar ensued. Carlsen implied that his opponent was surreptitiously…

Koneru Humpy is thinking back 20 years, to when she was a teenager playing in a tournament of disgruntled men. She had turned down her opponent’s offer of a draw and meandered into a slightly worse position on the board. It looked like it…